The Rev. Dr. Michelle Carlson serves part-time as the Seminarys
Director of Lifelong Learning. Michelles call to the church is a
multifaceted one. She is the pastor at Mt. Zion Lutheran Church in Keymar,
Maryland. Her education includes a B.A. from Mary Washington College in 1994,
an M.Div. from Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg in 2001 and a Ph.D.
from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in 2009. Along with being a
pastor, she enjoys researching, writing and teaching in a variety of venues in
the areas of Religious Education and Congregational Studies.

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We invite all Lutherans and their friends to join us for
this luncheon meeting of Lutheran Lay Fellowship, scheduled for the first
Thursday of each month from 12:00 noon till 2:00 p.m. at Saint Luke Lutheran
Church, 9100 Colesville Road at Dale Drive in Silver Spring, one mile south of
the Capitol Beltway at Exit 30. Ample off-street parking is available.
Interested persons can make reservations for a delicious lunch by sending their
RSVP to luncheon@lutheranlayfellowship.org by contacting Vicki Porter at
301-229-9884 or no later than 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 30. The cost of the
meal is $9.00, payable at the door.

What is the Lutheran
Lay Fellowship?

LLF is an organization for women and men, both lay and clergy, active in
the Nation's Capital area. As early as 1936, feeling there was a definite
need for closer cooperation between Lutheran laity and clergy, a group of
laymen in the Washington, DC. Metropolitan area, organized to hold meetings
that would bring pastors and laity closer together. Due to jurisdictional
differences as well as ministerial difficulties, very little success was
achieved until the fall of 1941. Then the group met and decided to hold a
luncheon once a month, invite their friends and bring visitors. The first
luncheon was a success, and within three months every Lutheran judicatory was
represented  [From a Lutheran Directory of Metropolitan
Washington, DC, published in 1999.]

Today, more than 70 years later, the Lutheran Lay Fellowship of
Metropolitan Washington takes pride in knowing that every night, 365 nights
each year, more than 700 low income seniors and disabled persons live in safety
and friendship in four high rises owned and managed by Fellowship Square
Foundation, Inc. By means of annual scholarships and grants, LLF also supports
various college and seminary students; it also provides ushering services for
major inter-Lutheran events. But most of all, LLF is known far and wide as a
place to hear stimulating speakers on timely topics and to make friends from
other Lutheran congregationsfriendships that last for decades!

Wont you join us?

Received this notice
in error?

Effective August 2011, the previous month's Meeting Minutes will be
posted in the ARCHIVE section of our website, www.LutheranLayFellowship.org and
the only hardcopy available will be at the next month's meeting. Meeting
Announcements will continue to be mailed to dues-paying members who do not have
an E-mail address.

If you are not interested in receiving notices from the LLF, please
reply to this note with a subject line of REMOVE and if applicable, specify who
in your congregation should receive notices.

An organization for women and men, both lay and clergy, active in the Nation's Capital area since 1936
Lutheran Lay Fellowship of Metropolitan Washington DC
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